The bug deals with Mandrake 7.0 - 7.02 and some install issues with older
hardware. In particular some ps2 mice and an older TEAC atapi cdrom drive.
Both were recognized by older Mandrake distributions. In the more recent
7.0+ dists, the installer doesn't recognize some older mice and you have to
use the keyboard to install. This wouldn't be a problem except you have to
do a basic install because you can't choose the packages. And the 7.0 +
dists. have some problems initializing some older atapi cdroms. It just
hangs when you boot the disk and the autoboot doesn't always work for the
install. If you have more recent hardware, this shouldn't be an issue. Good
Luck.
SA
>From: "Drazenko Djuricic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: AW: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:51:15 +0100
>
>
>Please forgive me jumping in,
>
>but what kind of bug are you talking of ?
>I'm new to this mailing list and thus surely
>missed your earlier postings.
>I am just interested in it from a technical
>point of view, as me and my colleagues at work
>make heavy use of various Linux distributions
>vor various things (DNS, Mail, WWW, etc.),
>and we have just started to use Mandrake 7.0
>on some desktop machines. If you know of any
>bugs I'd be glad if you could tell me,
>just in case something "funny" happens on my
>machines.
>
>thank you,
>
>DJ.
>Switzerland, Europe
>
>
>
> > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Sean Armstrong
> > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 21. M�rz 2000 16:08
> > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Betreff: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
> >
> > With all due respect, If you had read my earlier emails on this
> > subject you
> > would have seen that I have installed every Linux distribution
> > out there and
> > was even able to install the Mandrake 7.02 dist. on another
> > computer. The so
> > called bug is not 'my' mistake, but the mistake of Mandrake. They
> > have had
> > this problem with 7.0 since the Oxygen release, and even though
> > many people
> > complained of the problem to Mandrake they refused to fix the
> > BUG!!! This is
> > a corporate problem with Mandrake and they need to pull their respective
> > heads out of their self righteous arses before they rush a BETA
> > product to
> > market under the guise of a final product. I probably would not be so
> > irritated if they had a fix for the BUG, but they don't and like
> > others, you
> > have failed to give any helpful information on fixing the
> > problem. Good Day
> > and Good Luck.
> > SA
> >
> >
> > >From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
> > >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:58:46 -0800
> > >
> > >With all due respect, I've found that most of the time, the things that
> > >I've
> > >considered "bugs" were simply my own lack of knowledge to make
> > them work -
> > >I'm using Mandrake 7.02 and found it to be one of the most complete and
> > >easy
> > >distribs available. (Have used RedHat 6, SuSE 6.3 and now using the
> > >downloaded .iso image of Mandrake 7.02)
> > >Sincerely,
> > >Michael Holt
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Sean Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:10 AM
> > >Subject: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
> > >
> > >
> > > > For the life of me, I can not understand why Mandrake
> > continues to ship
> > >a
> > > > defective product. If their older versions had no problem
>initializing
> > > > cdroms and their new version DOES have problems initializing cdroms,
> > >then
> > > > why not correct that part of the code with the older versions part
>of
> > >code?
> > > > I'm no computer genius, but this problem is asinine. With a
> > competitive
> > > > market for Linux distributions that is growing everyday, it
> > seems to me
> > >that
> > > > Mandrake can't afford to pissoff their customers. For that
> > matter, with
> > >the
> > > > ever expanding market of computer OS's, now up to 4 reliable ones, I
> > >would
> > > > think that Mandrake would try to avoid driving their customers away.
> > >Once
> > > > again, Mandrake rushed an unfinished product to market. I guess in
>the
> > >world
> > > > of computers you don't have to have a real business plan or even
> > >understand
> > > > business to get ahead for a little while. So, until Mandrake
> > decides to
> > > > correct these issues, I for on am going back to the more
> > RELIABLE Redhat
> > > > distribution. At least their head isn't THAT far up their
> > arse. Good Day
> > >and
> > > > Good Luck.
> > > > SA
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